"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live." (James T. Adams)

August 11, 2006

Book meme

I saw this first at Rebecca's Gypsy Caravan, and then Kelly's Big A little a and decided to play since it's cool and cloudy today and I need a break in between washing the kitchen floor and cleaning the fridge. And this reminds me that I owe LaMai a book meme, too, which I'll have to dig out (sorry, LaMai!).

One book that changed your life:

The Well-Trained Mind. While I've tweaked it and deviated from it considerably since starting to homeschool -- it is, after all, just a guide -- and while academic reasons have come to be only part of the reason we homeschool, the book was instrumental in helping me to realize (and to convince Tom) that we could teach the kids at home and give them the education we want.

One book that you've read more than once:

Pride and Prejudice, which I feel compelled to read every spring (it's a wind-changing, Mary Poppins sort of thing)

And, in my childhood, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Housebooks and L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables books; these two series probably also changed my life considerably in that I developed such a love of pioneer life and of Canada that when presented with the option, upon deciding to marry Tom, of moving to a farm in Canada, it seemed the answer to a dream. And I've never regretted the choice (especially when I discovered that I could have almost any book sent almost to my door through Chapters.ca, Amazon.ca, Abebooks.com, or Powell's).

One book you'd want on a desert island:

The Encyclopedia of Country Livingby Carla Emery. Not only is it chock full of useful information for homesteading situations, but at over 800 pages, it would keep you in reading material for quite some time.